The third citizen : Shakespeare's theater and the early modern House of Commons

著者

• Arnold, Oliver

書誌事項

The third citizen : Shakespeare's theater and the early modern House of Commons

Oliver Arnold

（Parallax : re-visions of culture and society）

Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007

• : hbk

注記

Includes bibliographical references (p. 277-293) and index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

The new practices and theories of parliamentary representation that emerged during Elizabeth's and James' reigns shattered the unity of human agency, redefined the nature of power, transformed the image of the body politic, and unsettled constructs and concepts as fundamental as the relation between presence and absence. In The Third Citizen, Oliver Arnold argues that recovering the formation of political representation as an effective ideology should radically change our understanding of early modern political culture, Shakespeare's political art, and the way Anglo-American critics, for whom representative democracy is second nature, construe both. In magisterial readings of Titus Andronicus, Julius Caesar, Coriolanus, and the First Tetralogy, Arnold discovers a new Shakespeare who was neither a conservative apologist for monarchy nor a prescient, liberal champion of the House of Commons but instead a radical thinker and artist who demystified the ideology of political representation in the moment of its first flowering. Shakespeare believed that political representation produced (and required for its reproduction) a new kind of subject and a new kind of subjectivity, and he fashioned a new kind of tragedy to represent the loss of power, the fall from dignity, the false consciousness, and the grief peculiar to the experiences of representing and of being represented. Representationalism and its subject mark the beginning of political modernity; Shakespeare's tragedies greet political representationalism with skepticism, bleakness, and despair.

目次

Acknowledgments Note on References and Abbreviations Introduction Part I: Parliament in Shakespeare's England 1. "An epitome of the whole realme": Absorption and Representation in the Elizabethan and Jacobean House of Commons 2. Cade's Mouth: Swallowing Parliament in the First Tetralogy Part II: Political Representation in Shakespeare's Rome 3. "Their tribune and their trust": Political Representation, Property, and Rape in Titus Andronicus and The Rape of Lucrece 4. "Caesar is turn'd to hear": Theater, Popular Dictatorship, and the Conspiracy of Republicanism in Julius Caesar 5. "Worshipful mutineers": From Demos to Electorate in Coriolanus Epilogue: Losing Power, Losing Oneself: The Third Citizen and Tragedy Notes Works Cited Index

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詳細情報

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BA81449052
• ISBN:
  • 9780801885044
• 出版国コード: us
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 本文言語コード: eng
• 出版地: Baltimore, Md.
• ページ数/冊数: xii, 308 p., [6] p. of plates
• 大きさ: 24 cm
• 件名:
  • LCSH : Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Political and social views
  • LCSH : Politics and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 16th century
  • LCSH : Politics and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century
  • LCSH : Political plays, English -- History and criticism
  • LCSH : Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Knowledge -- Rome
  • LCSH : Rome -- In literature
  • LCSH : Great Britain -- In literature
• 親書誌ID:
  • BA07305098